|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:24 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:27 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:05 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:26 pm
|
Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:24 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:56 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:24 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:10 am
|
|
|
|
What you're describing is using brainstorming to stimulate your visual imagination. If that works for you, great, but I'm not sure it would be an effective method for everyone to work. For some people this may be over-stimulating. There's no guarantee that this method of word association would produce any level of dream recall - for some people they may simply have dreams about the jumble of words and ideas they were cramming together, as it comes out as garbage overflow from the subconscious mind.
I don't know if people who aren't used to processing that volume of information at once would really want to increase the information they recieve from the world. I'm not sure what added value it would have for them, if they've already gotten used to the world a different way. I think it might be, at best, a distraction, and at worst, sensory overload. The time you spend training your mind in this way is time where you're essentially blocking out other information - I'm not sure that you'd ever be able to train yourself to a point where it was fluent with all sensory input at all times, and wasn't something that required dedicated 'run-time', as it were.
I guess I'm thinking that it's either something you do only before you directly attempt to dream or visualize, as a warm-up, or that it's sort of impractical on a conscious level.
At least for me, your game would be sort of redundant. I'm already 'cranked up' on that level all the time because I'm a synetheste - my brain processes what would be 'extra' information for other people, all the time. My brain associates texture and colour and patterns and smells and sounds with numbers and words and sentences; a word is never just a word. A word is a cluster of concepts and images and experiences.
For example, the number 6 in my mind is indigo. It is made of velvet, because it is indigo. It makes me think of touching deep purple pansies, the hearts of nightblooming flowers, the heavy scent of dry dust, and wet earth.
Every single time I think of a number, or a word, or I read a particular sentence or phrase, or what have you, all these things I associate together go through my mind. For me, that's perfectly normal. I grew up with this. It wasn't until I was older that I learned it had a name and not everyone thought like this. I understand the world in a way that would be very cluttered, and hard to grasp for others. It's not streamlined or compact or neat. It's part of why I think it'd be overwhelming for a person to learn to do, and really unpractical - as we get older, our mental patterns become less plastic, and more fixed, and it's hard to change the way we think.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:15 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|